Edinhist

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@MisterSlang It might be cosmetics - specifically, rouge. Lots of references in Google Books, but here's one: #v=onepage&q=%22pink%20saucer%22&f=false" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">books.google.co.uk/books?id=GHyUc…

@NSE_Latchmere That's Wimbledon. Scratching my head about the others, though!

Where???

Right. Let’s have some more #lockdown #railway fun... it’s LATCHMERES GUESS THE LOCATION QUIZ!!! All pics taken by me. So. Ready?! Here we go!!

@oldscotbooks @rmason717 The 1936 History is next in line for digitization, so I'll send up the white smoke when it's done.

@edinhist @rmason717 I've got a copy, yes. I think somewhere I've also got the 1930s History as well, although I couldn't put my hands on it readily. But if you happen to have a digital copy (if there is such a thing) kicking around, let me know.

Would you describe someone who was recorded as a 'wrytter' in a contract/suit as a 'legal secretary' or a 'clerk'? This fella was a 'wrytter in Paisley' but I want a modern equivalent. I am hesitant to record him as a 'lawyer' as they were usually called 'procurators'.

@oldscotbooks @rmason717 The examples I've found are exclusively either in private correspondence or in the (very) local press, so with any kind of luck it shouldn't be a worry! Have you easy access to the 1983 edition of the WS Register btw?

@edinhist @rmason717 I'm not - or at least wasn't until just now - expecting to find any such 'phantom' WS, the aim is to provide biographical context to the SC litigants. I also hope to extend this approach to Dunblane Sheriff Court (and perhaps others), which may paint a different picture.

@oldscotbooks @rmason717 (There's an issue esp. in the C19 where local esp rural communities sometimes appear to have begun calling a highly-esteemed local solicitor a "Writer to the Signet" as a term of respect, but I think Rebecca's document is too early by far for this to be in play in any sense)

@rmason717 I'm not sure there's a single neat rendering that captures the range of meaning. (I'd agree with @edinhist's explanation re WS though, which is in my experience pretty much always distinguished from generic 'writer'.)

@mf6060 @rmason717 ..it'll be interesting to see what others plump for, but my instinct would be to go for something like "(legal) clerk" to preserve the sense of professionalism-but-not-in-the-modern-sense. I don't think there's a direct, bullet-proof modern equivalent.

@mf6060 @rmason717 Overall, it's tricky. Every modern idea of law agents/solicitors etc brings to mind a specific background/training/career, and the person in Rebecca's document might well have been the equivalent at a time when the professional experience was wildly different... (5)

@MacqueenHector 1805...!

@edinhist I’ll choose the cover of 5th edition of MacQueen & Thomson with even more care in that case! Have libraries ever tried arrangement by subject matter? 🤗🤭🙃

Get this person to the Signet now, @edinhist? - BBC News - Coronavirus: Library books rearranged in size order by cleaner bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Thankyou @cdundas - I don't do "without comment" so these by/including @kgbaston who I tag along with @gentleman_once and @leithlinkz

@MathewJLyons I've read nothing bar the old Penguin Guys & Dolls but was wondering about early Runyon editions. This stopped me in my tracks. Still to read any of the poems. This is the '30s British plainly struggling to come to terms -

@MathewJLyons Pre-1914! When he was a serious poet. (And drinker. IIRC the brilliant Guys & Dolls stories date from his years of sobriety). A Second Act in an American Life!

Mid-morning Newhaven

Take a look at THIS! An 'open book' and intimate insight into people's real lives and struggles. All on a disused roadside. Kudos to Math Roberts 👌